Welcome to CCAR INTERACT!

This wikispace is a place for the action research community to share teaching strategies, questions, resources, or ideas around supporting or conducting action research. It is the interactive mirror site to the CCAR WebCenter, and invites you to develop tools, strategies, ideas, and dialogue around the practice of doing and supporting action research.This wikispace is for students, faculty and others in the action research community.

We have three sections:

Teaching & Learning Support: An online tutorial with activities and templates to use as instructional or learning tools

The Neighborhood of Ideas: Action researchers can gather here to share their ideas, ask questions or post resources.

Sharing Outcomes: an invitation to those engaged in action research to share their outcomes, reflections and links to their work

We look forward to your continual participation. Please join the community and share your ideas!

Action research helps you to become a more powerful version of yourself, able to enage others in a process of continual learning and change. The course is made up of 12 Tutorials each with a short video to watch, a set of activities to complete (with linked writing templates for writing activities), and resources to support the completion of the activities.The goal of creating these materials is to "flip the classroom" so that learning about action research is done outside of the collaborative learning space so that valuable collaborative time can be used support the action research ideas of each person in the group or class. I have finished the first draft of this course, however I will be returning to revise the materials. Feel free to share links that might be useful in your work or your efforts to support other action researchers. In the second half of this website where there is space for more open sharing of strategies you have successful in teaching action research. Please share your ideas!

2) An Action Research Neighborhood for Sharing Ideas about Teaching Action Research

This is a space where YOU can share your Action Research Syllabus and ideas for teaching and supporting action Research. I am returning to this area and doing some editing to make it less redundant with the course. You are invited to add your ideas to these pages. The history button keeps track of page versions so we can restore pages if anything goes wrong (so don't worry). Over time, we hope that our collective minds will provide a supportive environment for those who are engaging in a formal process of action research as well as those who want to make action research a habit of mind. I am migrating the content to a new section and will indicated when I have finished. Here is a link to the new space I am developing for the neighborhood of ideas.

You can use the discussion tab to start a discussion about anything you read anywhere on the site. Also, you can have the site notify you (by email) when a specified page, or the whole site, is modified. These pages will be developed for use by those who are engaged in action research or supporting action researchers and are monitored by Margaret Riel (mriel@pepperdine.edu), Pepperdine University. Feel free to join and work out your ideas on the wiki pages or to start a discussion on any page.

3) Action Research Outcomes

In this part we ask for your observations, analysis, and reflection from doing action research. You can invite members from the community of people who were involved in your action research to add their reflections as well. If you are a professor and you have a site where your students post their work, feel free to add a link to that site. The more we know of these collections, the more we can help new students formulate plans for their action research.

I have just added the 10th tutorial on the iterative cyclic notion of action research. It is called cycles of change and will help you think through how to movefrom one cycle to the next. I hope you find it helpful. I have only two more tutorials to complete the free online self-directed course in action research.I might be able to get one done in Dec and the last one in Jan.

August 5, 2014

I have just completed tutorial 8- Analyzing Data. This was difficult as it is hard to provide enough information to get started with data analysis in 12 mins.I hope you find it useful and would enjoy hearing if it helped you or if there things that I should have addressed. New ideas help me think about what isthe best support. One idea that Katherine Kote suggested was to have writing templates so I am going to do that. I hope it will be helpful.

July 1, 2014

The presentation at the iEARN conference went very well and we have added 6 new people who will be working with the tutorials and learning how to do action research

June 15 2014

Cathy Healy,Linda Giesen, Katherine Korte, Eliane Metri and Margaret Riel are preparing to present action research at the 21st Conference of theInternational Education And Resource Network (iEARN). The tutorial were created to support teacher from iEARN with the hope of developing moreresearch knowledge about the process of doing international collaborative projects in the classroom.

April 23, 2014

The tutorials are developing. We are currently working on the 7th tutorial on data collection. If you want to be included, send a short video dealing with some aspect of your data collection.

The first day of the Action Research Network of the Americas Conference took place today and was a great success. Everything work smoothly, the keynote by Jean McNiff was excellent and all of the sessions generated a great deal of discussion and interest.

April, 2013

Cadre 15 will be presenting their action research on June 18 and 19th. It will be webcasted and information will be posted when it is available. Also coming soon are links to student's work

The 9th Annual Action Research Conference is taking place at University of San Diego- April 27-28, 2012

April, 2012,

We have just completed sessions at American Educational Research Association meetings in Vancouver and invite you to visit the websiteto links to our papers and the papers for other researchers.

August, 2011

We announce the new addition to our resources... a video channel on action research created by a cadre 13 student design team. They are also spearheading a discussion forum on EDMODO.To join the Action Research Channel Edmodo Community. please visit:http://www.edmodo.com . Join as a teacher and then select join a group and use this Group Code: zo06r4.

July,2011

The Pepperdine University Conference of Action Research with Technology- Cadre 13-- was held on June 28-29, 2011--and was recorded. We will be connecting the videos to the Conference Schedule.

a peer-reviewed site featuring the best examples of action research projects by students in the Master in Arts, Education Technology and Leadership program at Pepperdine over the past 9 years. We are publishing new action research projects on a regular basis. The WebCenter features more resources on action research and links to other action research sites. You can EDIT all pages except this opening page. We hope you will both join CCAR INTERACT (see option in the menu at the left) and add your ideas to the pages.